An illustration of a hatching Deinonychus chick from a blue egg with brown spots is pictured in this handout image provided November 1, 2018. Jasmina Wiemann/Yale Univeristy/Handout via REUTERS By ...

A study finds that there is a 50 percent chance that the common ancestor of birds and dinosaurs had bright colors on its skin, beaks and scales, but 0 percent chance that it had bright colors on its ...

Displaying eye-catching colors or outlandish behavior to catch the attention of a mate is common in nature, from the peacock, to the hummingbird, to the impossibly white teeth of 60-something real ...

“We infer that egg color co-evolved with open nesting habits in dinosaurs,” she said in a statement. “Once dinosaurs started to build open nests, exposure of the eggs to visually hunting predators and ...

Pterosaurs, flying reptiles that coexisted with dinosaurs, have been on a roll lately — or, rather, their fossils have, as a plethora of recent discoveries has helped flesh out the evolutionary ...

Vinther figured there was no reason pigment grains and melanosomes wouldn't survive in other fossilized creatures. He took a closer look at the suspicious dark smudges in an extinct bird fossil and ...

For the longest time, we had no idea what color dinosaurs were. We could see their bones. We could study their size, their movement, and how they lived. But their actual appearance—what they looked ...

A new study says the colors found in modern birds’ eggs did not evolve independently, as previously thought, but evolved instead from dinosaurs. According to researchers at Yale, the American Museum ...

woodpecker feather (right side). Under the scanning electron microscope there are melanosomes in the dark but not the light areas of the fossil (far left arrows). The corresponding areas are shown at ...

With little more than mineralized bones to study, scientists and artists have only been able to guess what color dinosaurs were. But a new study, utilizing scanning electron micrography, has detected ...

I seem to have ended up as the Dinosaur Feather Color Bureau Chief at the New York Times. After discovering colors in fossil bird feathers, scientists found colors in dinosaurs last week. But this ...

image: Extinct dinosaurs may have had bright color on their skin, scales and beaks in a manner similar to modern birds, according to research led by The University of Texas at Austin. An artist’s ...